Need a good and recent book on GLib/GTK+

2014-08-16 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Hi, In the article "Shifting toward Qt": http://lwn.net/Articles/607563/ One of the mentioned problems is the GTK+ documentation. I don't agree with that, I think the API is well documented. But what is really missing is a good and recent book, for an introduction to how to write a GLib/GTK+ appl

Re: Need a good and recent book on GLib/GTK+

2014-08-17 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 00:46 -0700, Christian Hergert wrote: > One of the things I'd like to do longer term is integrate tutorials into > Builder. (And a companion book/pdf to go with). But that is a while out. That would be great. It's a pity that a week lasts only 7 days. And I don't think the GT

Re: Small idea to be more positive towards new contributors

2014-09-01 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Hi, On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 04:36:01PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > I think that we should rename the "needs-work" patch status to > something more positive, and less disheartening for contributors. > > "feedback-given" is an alternative which I quite like. > > Good idea? There is already "re

Re: Small idea to be more positive towards new contributors

2014-09-01 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 06:00:38PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > No, "reviewed" is "I'd set this as accepted-commit_now" but I'm not the > maintainer". Interesting. I was not aware of this meaning. For me "reviewed" was just "reviewed" in the general sense, and thus was a good alternative for "re

Re: Small idea to be more positive towards new contributors

2014-09-05 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:50:02AM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > FWIW: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Development/WorkingWithPatches#How_to_review_a_patch Makes sense. But it is difficult to know that when working only in bugzilla. A tooltip could be displayed for each status. But t

Re: Need a good and recent book on GLib/GTK+

2014-09-16 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Hi Christian, On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 01:12:53PM -0700, Christian Hergert wrote: > On 08/17/2014 07:15 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > But even with a perfect toolkit, if there is no good introduction, > > beginners will anyway learn something else. > > If anyone wan

Re: Need a good and recent book on GLib/GTK+

2014-09-17 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:27:14AM +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > > There is one book out there [1], although it's not free. > > and if I remember postings on planet.gnome.org around that time > correctly, reviews were... "mixed". Yes, there has been a bad review (1/5): http://blogs.gnome.org/dann

Re: FOSDEM Table Application

2014-11-19 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Hi, On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:41:04AM +, Allan Day wrote: > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014#feedback At FOSDEM it's a good idea to target developers and computer science students. Many stands have flyers describing technically their technologies (the BSDs stands for example). S

FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-08 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Hi, On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 04:13:13PM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > If someone wants to write the content, perfect. Otherwise I can write an > > initial version. > Cool! Really great. Looking forward to your

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-08 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:50:54PM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:48:35PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > I've finished an initial version: > > https://people.gnome.org/~swilmet/gtk-brochure.pdf > > https://github.com/swilmet/gtk-brochure

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-08 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 04:24:05PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > For instance: > | GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the > | licensing terms > > The "However," is not needed. fixed. > Then there are various abbreviations that changed their meaning AFAIK. > GTK+ does not

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-08 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:31:39PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > GTK+ has been created in 1996 for the GIMP — the > > GNU Image Manipulation Program — but has quickly > > Maybe: > "- a photo retouching, image composition and image au

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-08 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:48:35PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > I've finished an initial version: > > https://people.gnome.org/~swilmet/gtk-brochure.pdf > > https://github.com/swilmet/gtk-brochure >

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-10 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 02:06:20PM +0100, Oliver Propst wrote: > It's cool to see initiatives this. Although I understand this is > document explaining a technical subject thus details are needed I > still find it very wordy, maybe it would be possible to shorten some > sections. In comparison, so

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-14 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 05:34:20PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > If there's no other options just tell me and it'll print a few. It would > be good to know how many we usually hand out. I can print them. How many copies? In colors or black and white? Sébastien

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-14 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:04:41PM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 05:40:08PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > I can print them. > > > > How many copies? > 500 should be more than enough. > > > In colors or black and white? > Well

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-14 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 07:51:07PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > Release Schedule and Versioning Scheme > > Every six months there are new GLib, GObject, GIO, GTK+ and GNOME stable > releases, around March and September. I've changed that paragraph, the content is now:

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-14 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:33:07PM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:21:12PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > I was more thinking around 100, but it's probably too few. I don't have > > a suitable printer, so I'll print that in a shop. But i

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-20 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > I did a test print just now. It prints fine. The printer isn't perfect, > it again is a little bit dirty (so you see some marks on part of the > print). Ok, thanks for the test. ___ engageme

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-28 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:17:55PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > I'll print it somewhere around Thursday afternoon. So please make sure > no changes are done after e.g. 12.00 UTC. Or tell me up front so I can > check if I can print later. The last modification was done Saturday 24, after some comme

Re: you know... (book)

2015-02-06 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 10:36:30PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > You know just having an IDE is not enough, it would be great if we > could get someone to write a a book or something on gnome development The GLib chapter is almost finished: https://people.gnome.org/~swilmet/glib-gtk-dev-platfo

Promoting gnome.org for hosting apps/libraries

2015-06-03 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Hi, I got involved in GNOME (indirectly) thanks to this blog series: "Why gnome.org Rocks" https://blogs.gnome.org/johannes/2010/06/04/why-gnome-org/ At that time I was developing a GTK+ application (LaTeXila), hosted partly on GitHub and partly on SourceForge. Handling translator contributions w

Re: Promoting gnome.org for hosting apps/libraries

2015-06-03 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote: > > So, by promoting the gnome.org project hosting platform, you'll get more > > _experienced_ developers that can more easily contribute to other GNOME > > modules and become core GNOME developers. > > > > I reckon the main thing to

Problems about Apps/Template and Projects/Template

2015-12-04 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Hi, The templates https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Template https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Template could be improved: * "Bugzilla product" is in the Development Resources section, but should be in Getting in Touch, before the link to "File a bug". Because before filing a new bug, users must search

Re: Problems about Apps/Template and Projects/Template

2015-12-05 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:54:47PM +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Christian Hergert > wrote: > > I also find MoinMoin itself to be incredibly lacking. > > That seems to be a widespread opinion. MoinMoin does not bother me. With time I got used to its syntax. S

Re: Problems about Apps/Template and Projects/Template

2015-12-05 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 11:38:31AM +0100, Bastian Ilso wrote: > The application pages which don't follow > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Template follows > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/TemplateFancy (covered in > https://blogs.gnome.org/bastian/2015/05/26/a-pretty-app-wiki-template/). > > The apps th

Re: Problems about Apps/Template and Projects/Template

2015-12-05 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 12:15:23PM -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: > On 12/05/2015 04:42 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > Apps are anyway better browsed with a software center like > > gnome-software. The wiki pages are there for the useful additional > > information: links

Re: Responsive Gnome instance

2016-01-13 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:45:50PM -0500, Saumya Dwivedi wrote: > I am one of the past participants of the Outreachy program and I have been > working on the responsive design project for the Gnome website. Currently > the testing instance is hosted in http://wgo-test.gnome.org/ . > > I know the w

Re: Responsive Gnome instance

2016-01-22 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:32:17AM -0500, Saumya Dwivedi wrote: > Thank you for the feedback. I have updated the website with some other bug > fixes and it would be great if you guys can look over it for the overall > experience or any other technical mistakes. > Content, images etc can be changed